15 Tools If You Are (Not) Colorblind

The following list of on- and offline tools for colorblind persons was put together by JNvB, the founder and owner of www.kleurenblindheid.nl.

This is an overview of available software and websites which either help and assist you if you are suffering from color blindness (Visolve, Daltap, eyePilot™) or tools that can show you how the world looks like for colorblind persons. Next to that, programs are indicated that can recognize color and can show the name and/or code (e.g. RGB).

Daltap has several features combined of which the flashing feature is the most useful. By flashing, it shows where a picked color is on your screen. Next to that, it can give the name of the color at the tip of mouse and it can also zoom in the area that is near the mouse.

Several filters that allows better identification of colors by graying out all colors except the one chosen or by flashing a picked color. It can also make a color turn black by clicking on the name and it can show the name of color. On top of that, it can change the hue of colors, increasing the contrast between colors.

The filters of eyePilot™:

Gray filter: all colors gray but the picked color

Flashing filter: a chosen color flashes

Name filter: shows the name of the color the mouse points at

Hue filter: adjusts the saturation of colors

Platforms:

Windows NT, 2000 and XP

Mac OS v10.2 and higher

Download: eyePilot™Fully functional trail version for 30 days. Thereafter an activation code is needed for which you have to pay $34.00.

This Firefox add-on offers the possibility to change websites, text and figures such that it is better readable for the colorblind. This can be done while browsing or via a menu with the following filters:

Red filter (for protanopia and protanomaly)

Green filter (for deuteranopia and deuteranomaly)

Blue filter (for tritanopia and tritanomaly)

Monochromacy

Platform:

FireFox 2.0 or higher with Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or Java Advanced Imaging Run Time 1.1.3 or higher.

ColorDoctor not only simulates website display, it is also possible to simulate real-time display of for example moving images such as Flash by selecting the “Transparent” mode. It is possible to show the display content through four different conversion filters:

Grayscale

Protanopia

Deuteranopia

Tritanopia

The simulation result can be stored in various file formats, including BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF.

You can either select a color by its name, enter a hexadecimal color value or select a color on a color selector wheel. Name that color will find the closest match out of a list of more than 1500 colors and name it.

http://www.colorblinds.org is a free online tool for color blind people. It includes an image daltonizer and a colorname (and hue name)picker.
There is also a firefox extension which allows to open an image with one click in colorblinds.org.

Color Blindness Resources

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